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Integration of People with Disabilities: Discrimination

Council of Europe.  1999.  Integration of People with Disabilities: Discrimination.
English

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The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status. (Article 14) European Convention on Human Rights

Recommendation No. R(96)5 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Reconciling Work and Family Life

Council of Europe.  1996.  Recommendation No. R(96)5 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Reconciling Work and Family Life.
English

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 19 June 1996
at the 569th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)

Copyright © Council of Europe

 

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 15.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe,

Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress, while respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Integration of People with Disabilities: Employment of persons with disabilities

Council of Europe.  1996.  Integration of People with Disabilities: Employment of persons with disabilities.
English

Copyright © Council of Europe


Activities in the field of employment aim at completing or enlarging the provisions of Recommendation No. R (92) 6 on a coherent policy for people with disabilities (chapter VI on vocational guidance and training and chapter VII on employment).

Integration of People with Disabilities: Accessibility - Universal Design

Council of Europe.  1993.  Integration of People with Disabilities: Accessibility - Universal Design.
English

Copyright © Council of Europe


Construction of the man-made environment is based on the assumption that there exists an "average" person. However, there is no standardised person. Every individual deviates from the norm in one way or another: age, height, width, weight, strength, speed, sight, hearing, stamina, mental faculties, etc. Consequently, facilities built for the average person are not necessarily equally accessible for everybody.

Introducing access legislation for architects and planners in Mauritius

Bhandari, Avinash.  1992.  Introducing access legislation for architects and planners in Mauritius.
English

CIB logo

Report of the CIB Expert Seminar
on Building Non-Handicapping Environments
Harare, Zimbabwe, January 16-18, 1992

Introducing access legislation for
architects and planners in Mauritius

Avinash Bhandari, Ministry of Works, Mauritius

Croatians are proud of their disability policy

Erdtman, Emil.  2008.  Croatians are proud of their disability policy.
English
Croatians are proud of their disability policy. A disability ombudsman who has a disability has been appointed and accessibility and legislation are on the right track. A law on personal assistance will take effect in 2010.

United Kingdom Single Family Access Law

Concrete Change.  1998.  United Kingdom Single Family Access Law.
English

by Concrete Change, 1998

Section 6


MEANS OF ACCESS TO AND INTO THE DWELLING

Objective

6.1 The objective is to make reasonable provision within the boundary or the plot of the dwelling or a disabled person to approach and gain access into the dwelling from the point of alighting from a vehicle which may be within C outside the plot. In most circumstances it should be possible to provide a level or ramped approach.

A serial killer of disabled people, out on the streets - Will Jack Kevorkian be convicted?

Coleman, Diane.  1999.  A serial killer of disabled people, out on the streets - Will Jack Kevorkian be convicted?
English

January 25, 1999

Dear Not Dead Yet Members and Supporters:

The courts of Michigan are preparing to send a worldwide message about the euthanasia of people with disabilities. Will Jack Kevorkian be convicted and imprisoned? Or will he be acquitted once more, never to be charged again?

Could it happen? A serial killer of disabled people, out on the streets, free to kill again?

Yes. It’s happened before. Kevorkian has only been prosecuted in connection with the deaths of six of his estimated 130 victims.

Issues Arising from Genetics - Genetics and Disability

Clarke, Dr. Angus.  1998.  Issues Arising from Genetics - Genetics and Disability.
English

by Dr. Angus Clarke, Institute of Medical Genetics,
University of Wales College of Medicine

 

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Clare, Elizabeth.  1999.  Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation.
English

 

by Eli (Elizabeth) Clare, 1999

What connections can be made between loggers and drag queens, between environmentalists and paraplegics? Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, a new book by Eli Clare, explores the landscape of disability, class, queerness, and child abuse, telling stories that echo with the sounds of an Oregon logging and fishing town, and with the lively political debates of crip crusaders and transgender warriors.

Handikappombudsman Inledning på Konferensen om Lagstiftning för Mänskliga Rättigheter

Claesson Wästberg, Inger.  1998.  Handikappombudsman Inledning på Konferensen om Lagstiftning för Mänskliga Rättigheter.
Swedish

Stockholm, Sverige, 24 augusti 1998

Inger Claesson Wästberg, Handikappombudsman


Det är en glädje att få öppna den här konferensen som är ett samarbete mellan Independent living Sverige och handikappombudsmannen. Vi har valt ett tema som är centralt för människor med funktionsnedsättningar; hur de mänskliga rättigheterna ska kunna lagfästas och upprätthållas också för människor med funktionsnedsättningar.

Kevorkian's death crusade finally stopped

Charen, Mona.  1999.  Kevorkian's death crusade finally stopped.
English

© Los Angeles Daily News - 29 April 1999

by Mona Charen

Demand for Social Security Measures by Independent Living Association in Japan

Center for Independent Living, Tokyo, Japan.  1996.  Demand for Social Security Measures by Independent Living Association in Japan.
English

Center for Independent Living
June 1996


We are disabled people who want to live as independently as possible in the community with staff to support us. In spite of all our campaigning efforts directed toward the government and the society in general to make independent living possible for people with disabilities, we are still a long way from our goal. We need more support to reach our goal.

To get support for independent living for disabled people is difficult because our requirements are not understood easily by society in general and the national government and other official sectors are not working earnestly enough towards fulfilling our requirements.

Inget om oss utan oss!

Bollard, Joe.  2003.  Inget om oss utan oss!.
Swedish

In English

 

[Spanska slagord från demonstrationen]
[Franska slagord från demonstrationen]

Joe Bollard: Sista veckan i september 2003 samlades människor med funktionshinder från hela Europa i Strasbourg. Avsikten var att marschera till EU-parlamentets byggnad. Demonstrationen var en del av kampanjen för Independent Living för människor med funktionshinder och fick namnet "Strasbourg Freedom Drive", frihetsresan till Strasbourg. Aldrig tidigare hade så många människor med funktionshinder slutit upp för en manifestation utanför EU-parlamentet

Making Technology Accessible To All

Carleton, Gwen.  1999.  Making Technology Accessible To All.
English

''Close your eyes and dial your home phone number,'' says Gregg Vanderheiden, holding out a cardboard mock-up of a typical cellular phone.

His interviewer obliges. But when she opens her eyes, she sees she made a mess of it, punching the phone's program keys instead of digits.

''Try again,'' Vanderheiden says, handing over another cardboard phone.

This one has a raised nib on the 5 key and ridges surrounding the digits, and her fingers trace the pattern smoothly.

''Now, every key has a tactile clue and you can dial with confidence,'' he explains.

John Hessler, Pioneer in Independence for Disabled People, Dies

Campos, Art.  1993.  John Hessler, Pioneer in Independence for Disabled People, Dies.
English

by Art Campos
Bee Staff Writer, May 13, 1993, Davis, California


John Hessler's spirit could have been destroyed along with his spinal cord that day in 1957 when he dove into a swimming hole. But the 6-foot-7 inch Hessler wasn't one who wanted to spend the rest of his life in hospitals or sitting in a wheelchair at home.

He went on to help revolutionize the nation's attitudes toward disabled people - first by entering the University of California, Berkeley, and later by helping create the Center for Independent Living, a program now run in 27 cities.

‘Growing Pains,’ Disability Politics - The journey explained and described

Campbell, Jane.  1996.  ‘Growing Pains,’ Disability Politics - The journey explained and described.
English

Paper delivered at the Disability and Society Conference Autumn 1996

by Jane Campbell

Death & Life

Brown, Steven E, Gonzales Brown Lillian.  1995.  Death & Life.
English

It's time to talk about death. Not only the sad and unexpected deaths of our heroes, role models and friends like Ed Roberts, Irv Zola, or others of the currently aging crip generation, but the messy reality of living with disabling conditions that lead to the inexorable reality of life's end.

Two years ago we entered a very quiet Tucson, Arizona house. A hospital bed dominated the living room. On it lay a gaunt, dying man. Steve knew him only as Lew, the partner of Lillian's friend, Dan. We spent a couple of hours with Lew and Dan and then went on about our lives. Days later Lew was dead--another casualty of the AIDS virus.

The Curb Ramps of Kalamazoo: Discovering Our Unrecorded History

Brown, Steven E.  1999.  The Curb Ramps of Kalamazoo: Discovering Our Unrecorded History.
English

"Friday, April 25th, 1997, a ceremony in downtown Berkeley commemorated the 25th anniversary of the first curb ramp for the disabled. "It's the slab of concrete heard round the world," according to Gerald Baptiste, Associate Director of Berkeley's Center for Independent Living, noting that the curb ramp is believed to be the predecessor of millions of similar ramps that have been built throughout the world to enable wheelchair users to utilize sidewalks, businesses, parks and other public facilities."

Institutional Madness: Speaking out against institutionalism

Brown, Steven E.  1999.  Institutional Madness: Speaking out against institutionalism.
English

Americans learn from a very early age that our nation began with certain inalienable rights, including the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Is this reality or is this rhetoric?

In Freedom, Frank

Brown, Steven E.  1998.  In Freedom, Frank.
English
I lie here in my universe of the mat, my bed. I always have been here lying in my universe forever, forever. My mat, my pillow, my sheet, my blanket...for countless force-fed meals, enemas, baths, shaves, haircuts, pissed-on sheets...many many harsh-lighted days, many, many semi-dark nights. Outside my universe there are bony fingers, blotch-skin creatures. Sometimes they invaded my universe...the sickly-sweet smelling ones. They "take care of me"...they handle me like they handle my pillow.

Frank Moore, an underground performance artist from Berkeley, California, who has significant cerebral palsy and for much of his life has been labeled non-verbal, is a beacon of possibilities in life and art.

Poster Kids No More:' Perspectives About the No-Longer Emerging (In Fact, Vibrant) Disability Culture

Brown, Steven E.  1998.  Poster Kids No More:' Perspectives About the No-Longer Emerging (In Fact, Vibrant) Disability Culture.
English

by Steven E. Brown
Institute on Disability Culture

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They thought we'd keep on smiling for years to come
They thought we'd just be helpless and mild
Without our own opinion they could just cash in on
Their image of the crippled child.

But Timmy and Tammy are rebelling
Their Easter seals have come unglued
They won't be apathetic; they refuse to look pathetic
They're changing their point of view.
They're poster kids no more,
Poster kids no more!

Oh, Don't You Envy Us Our Privileged Lives?

Brown, Steven E.  1997.  Oh, Don't You Envy Us Our Privileged Lives?
English

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Reprinted with permission from DISABILITY & REHABILITATION, Biomedicine & Bioscience Journals Publisher, Taylor & Francis Limited, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3UE United Kingdom. WWW: www.tandf.co.uk/

(Page numbers are given in round brackets and footnotes in square brackets.)

"The fishing is free with your disability
You don't need a license like the rest.
Movies are half the price, well isn't that nice?
And the parking spots are nothing but the best.

Dis-ing Definitions

Brown, Steven E.  1997.  Dis-ing Definitions.
English

Language can be a bane of human rights movements. What do we call ourselves? What do others call us? Do labels intersect with models of freedom? Can descriptions of who we are liberate us from yolks of oppression? Do we automatically imprison ourselves as soon as we turn to classifications?

For many years I have been writing, talking, and thinking about language. Like my colleagues across the world in the disability rights movement I have described myself as an individual with a disability, using the preferred term "disability" for a myriad of conditions in combination with "people first" language where the condition of "disability" is an adjective describing one aspect of a person.

Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars

Brown, Steven E.  1997.  Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars.
English

Valentine's Day, 1992. It rained harder that day in Oakland, California, than it had for fifty years. Sheets of water cascaded onto the ground. Visibility was laughable. You couldn't inch outside without getting drenched.

Super Duper? The (Unfortunate) Ascendancy of Christopher Reeve

Brown, Steven E.  1996.  Super Duper? The (Unfortunate) Ascendancy of Christopher Reeve
English

About a year ago, Christopher Reeve became paralyzed in an horse-riding accident. A respirator-using quadriplegic Reeve has suddenly become the most well-known, best-loved person with a disability in the world (as opposed to someone like Muhammad Ali, who is probably the most well-known, but not the best-loved - an important distinction). President Clinton invited Reeve to speak at the Democratic National Convention in late August.

This invitation led to a most interesting electronic mail conversation. It began with a challenge from historian Paul Longmore:

Book Review - Deviants, Invalids, and Anthropologists: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Conditions of Disability in One Academic Discipline: A Review of Disability and Culture

Brown, Steven E.  1996.  Book Review - Deviants, Invalids, and Anthropologists: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Conditions of Disability in One Academic Discipline: A Review of Disability and Culture.
English

"Deviants, Invalids, and Anthropologists*: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Conditions of Disability in One Academic Discipline: A Review of DISABILITY AND CULTURE. Edited by BENEDICTE INGSTAD and SUSAN REYNOLDS WHYTE (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) [Pp. 307]

* A play on the title of Chapter One, "Deviants, Invalids, and Freedom Fighters: Historical Perceptions of People with Disabilities in the United States," in my recent manuscript, "Investigating a Culture of Disability."

We Are Who We Are: So Who Are We? Musings on the definition of disability culture

Brown, Steven E.  1996.  We Are Who We Are: So Who Are We? Musings on the definition of disability culture
English

Saturday morning. The sun is shining. I sit contentedly in my living room chair fulfilling a volunteer commitment. Baking pleasantly in the warmth, and the light, I am energized. I finish the volunteer work; I complete some light reading; I retrieve my pile of disability culture notecards waiting to be organized and filed. I feel productive. I am contemplative. Before I can stop myself my brain is racing into an approach and definition of disability culture I think might be livable.

How many cultural definitions or characteristics might one find in the above paragraph? Sun-worshipper? Volunteer? Workaholic? Reader? Philosopher?

What would make any of the above words cultures? What would make me a member of such a culture?

Disability Culture: A Fact Sheet

Brown, Steven E.  1996.  Disability Culture: A Fact Sheet.
English

Copyright ©1995, Institute on Disability Culture, All Rights Reserved

The modern disability rights movement began more than thirty years ago during the 1960s. People with disabilities around the world successfully challenged dominant social stereotypes. In the United States, Ed Roberts, a post-polio, ventilator-using quadriplegic, broke American educational barriers when he became the first person with such a significant disability to attend college. Roberts entered the University of California at Berkeley in 1962. During a lifetime of fighting for equality for people with disabilities he became an international representative of human rights and overthrowing oppression.

I Was Born (in a Hospital Bed) -- When I Was Thirty-One Years Old

Brown, Steven E.  1995.  I Was Born (in a Hospital Bed) -- When I Was Thirty-One Years Old.
English

by Steven E. Brown
Institute on Disability Culture
2260 Sunrise Point Rd.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 88011

This article is based on a speech written when I served as Training Director for the Research and Training Center on Public Policy in Independent Living at the World Institute on Disability funded by National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Research grant #H133B00006-90. The address was delivered to the Region VI Independent Living Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas on November 11, 1991.

A Celebration of Diversity: An Introductory, Annotated Bibliography about Disability Culture

Brown, Steven E.  1995.  A Celebration of Diversity: An Introductory, Annotated Bibliography about Disability Culture.
English

by Steven E. Brown, Ph.D.
Institute on Disability Culture
2260 Sunrise Point Rd.
Las Cruces, NM 88011

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Copyright ©1995, Institute on Disability Culture, All Rights Reserved

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Creating a Disability Mythology

Brown, Steven E.  2009.  Creating a Disability Mythology.
English

"...the folk heroes of disability and chronic disease have not been the millions who came to terms with their problems but those few who were so successful that they passed: the polio victim who broke track records, the one-legged pitcher who played major league baseball, the great composer who was deaf, the famous singer who had a colostomy. They were all so successful that no one knew of their disability, and therein lay their glory." (Zola, MISSING PIECES, 204)

Center for Independent Living in Jerusalem

Brafman, Daniela.  2008.  Center for Independent Living in Jerusalem.
English
By Daniela Brafman, Director, Center for Independent Living Jerusalem, January 2008

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Philosophy of Independent Living

Hasler, Frances.  2003.  Philosophy of Independent Living.
English

“Independent Living is the emancipatory philosophy and practice which empowers disabled people and enables them to exert influence, choice and control in every aspect of their life.”

Lots of people have made definitions of independent living. They all focus on a few key concepts: choice, control, freedom, equality.

One aim of independent living is to equalise the opportunities available to disabled people. Philip Mason expresses it as an ideal:

Recent advances in accessibility legislation and incentives in Singapore

Harrison, James D.  1991.  Recent advances in accessibility legislation and incentives in Singapore.
English

Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on
Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Budapest 1991

Det är du som bestämmer: Brukarstryd budget för att ordna assistans (Direct Payments)

Hardus, Alwine.  1998.  Det är du som bestämmer: Brukarstryd budget för att ordna assistans (Direct Payments).
Swedish

In English


För dig som på grund av fysisk eller psykisk funktionsnedsättning behöver vård, stöd eller behandling hemma under en period som överstiger tre månader finns två lösningar: antingen kan du få i natura tjänster eller en egen budget för vård och ordna vård/assistans själv.

Boss in your own home: Client Linked Budget

Hardus, Alwine.  1998.  Boss in your own home: Client Linked Budget.
English

På svenska


If, as a result of a physical or mental disability, you need nursing, care, counselling, support or treatment for longer than three months at home, there are two solutions: help in kind, or the Client Linked Budget.

Conference on Human Rights for Disabled People: Discussion from August 24th, 1998

Handikappombudsmannen, Independent Living Sverige.  1998.  Conference on Human Rights for Disabled People: Discussion from August 24th, 1998.
English


The discussion opens on the topic of constitutional laws and anti-discrimination legislation for persons with disabilities.

Konferensen om Lagstiftning för Mänskliga Rättigheter, 24 augusti 1998, Stockholm

Handikappombudsmannen, Independent Living Sverige.  1998.  Konferensen om Lagstiftning för Mänskliga Rättigheter, 24 augusti 1998, Stockholm.
Swedish

Arrangerad av Handikappombudsmannen i samarbete med
Independent Living Sverige
24 augusti 1998, Stockholm

In English


Allt fler länder stiftar lagar mot diskriminering av funktionshindrade. På konferensen presenteras erfarenheter från flera länder. Den traditionella svenska handikappolitiken har varit inriktad mot individuellt stöd och att kompensera brister genom särlösningar.

Peru 1997

Handi Cap Evasion.  1997.  Peru 1997.
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